The Four-Part Cycle of Flow

The old idea about flow was that it was a binary. It was like a light switch or you were out of the zone, he says. What we now know is that flow is a four-part cycle. You have to move through all four parts of these cycle, of the cycle, before you can return to the flow state itself. The recovery phase on the back end of the flow state is actually very, very unpleasant as well.

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